THE FLARES • ENCORE OF FOOT STOMPIN' HITS • 1963 MONO LP PRESS PR 73001

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Apr 29, 2018 Sold Date

Apr 22, 2018 Start Date

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THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF R&B AND DOO WOP GROUPS WHO HAVE A SEEMINGLY SIMPLE LINEAGE, WITH OFTEN NO MORE THAN A NAME VARIATION HERE OR LINE-UP CHANGE THERE. CLOSER INVESTIGATION, HOWEVER, INVARIABLY REVEALS THAT THINGS ARENT QUITE AS SIMPLE AS FIRST THOUGHT. TAKE FOR EXAMPLE “THE FLARES” OR, AS THEY WERE ORIGINALLY CHRISTENED, “THE FLAIRS”. IN FACT, THEY BEGAN LIFE AS “THE DEBONAIRES”, BECAME THE FLAIRS WHEN THEY WERE SIGNED BY “FLAIR RECORDS” BUT STRUGGLED TO MAKE ANY KIND OF HEADWAY UNDER EITHER MONIKER. MEMBERS CAME AND WENT, INCLUDING CORNELL GUNTER (PREVIOUSLY OF THE PLATTERS AND LATER TO FORM THE COASTERS) AND THE GROUP TRIED SEVERAL OTHER NAME CHANGES, INCLUDING “THE CHIMES” AND “THE ERMINES”. BY 1959 THEY WERE MANAGED BY BUCK RAM (WHO ALSO MANAGED THE PLATTERS) . THIS GROUP FINALLY SAW SOME ACTION WHEN “FOOT STOMPIN’ PART 1” TOOK OFF ON THE R&B AND POP CHART THAT MAKES THIS ALBUM EVEN MORE SOUGHT AFTER; THE ONLY KNOWN ALBUM RELEASE BY “THE FLARES”, FEATURING THEIR ONLY MAJOR HIT! -- WE HAVE HERE A 1963 DEEP GROOVE PRESSING WITH COVER IN STRONG SHAPE AND SHINY, LIGHTLY PLAYED RECORD.

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